Word: nuclear
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Sometimes the medium gets in the way of the message. Last week the Colorado chapter of Greenpeace unveiled an antinuclear billboard blitz near the idle Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant outside Denver -- and ran afoul of another environmental group: Citizens Against Billboards on Highway...
...also compared Saddam to Hitler, who is identified in the public mind as a ruler so vicious that the only solution is to destroy him. Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons makes nearly impossible the restoration of stability and security in the gulf area -- a restoration that the President has declared is an important...
...showdown with Saddam is a test case of whether the international community can contain unprovoked aggression in the post-cold war world. If the Iraqi dictator gets away with his seizure of Kuwait, the precedent will be set for other aggressions and other wars, some of them potentially nuclear, started by any nation that wants to alter the map of the world by force. American public opinion so far seems to understand this intuitively, but without much help from the President. He will have to do better than that if war comes -- and there is no more reason...
...spoke in favor of nuclear disarmament, even a unilateral freeze. An old man in the congregation stood up and challenged his position, and the two proceeded to debate the peace movement. The old man yelled and screamed about defense and deterrents. Like a true peacemaker, Father Ken never raised his voice as he spoke of the evils of annihilation. When the old man lost the argument and stormed out of the church, the people in the congregation applauded in support of Father Ken and peace...
Pound has verified a prediction of Einstein'stheory of relativity and performed the firstexperiments detecting nuclear magnetic resonance,a field with wide-ranging medical applications. Heis credited with aiding in the development of themodern radar